[SkyDancer]

Francis Bacon?????

[CaptRon]

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, bacon.

[Auntie Dem]

Francis Bacon?????

Do you mean "Six Degrees of Separation" Bacon?

[VR-21]

I believed it to be Edward Devere (7th Earl of Oxford). Joseph Sobran made a good case for him in Alias Shakespeare (at least I thought so).

[SunkenCiv]

:’) An older title (I think circa 1960), bought it used, I read a year or more ago, called “The Hidden Shakespeare”, thoroughly examines the idea that Shakespeare didn’t write his own plays, and traces all of this lunacy back to a nutty book from about 150 years ago (if memory serves). One book by one wackadoo has turned into a cottage industry serving generations of cranks. :’)